When Aggie Toppins, head of the art department, first came to UTC as a professor, she taught a class for design students called Co-Creations. One of the class projects was about bicycles. Students in the class set their sights on the public-use green-and-blue bikes stationed throughout Chattanooga. No one asked the students why bicycles. Rather, the students asked: “Why aren’t people using these?” They began exploring reasons. First, the…
